Over the past few months, a joint police and military operation in Stilfontein has attempted to force zama zamas out from underground by blocking their supply of food. To date, more than 1 300 miners ...

Late on Sunday night, 14 zama zamas surfaced from deep underground at a disused mine in Stilfontein, where a major operation ...

Late on Sunday night, 14 zama zamas surfaced from deep underground at a disused mine in Stilfontein, where a major operation ...

Perched on the rubble around the mine were about 50 young men, many of them wearing facemasks or balaclavas ... In the past ...

He spoke to GroundUp in Stilfontein, the former mining town in North-West province where zama zamas were recently cut off from food for approximately two months as part of a national clampdown on ...

When zama zamas go hungry deep underground in the abandoned mines where they illegally mine for gold, they sometimes resort ...

One miner was killed while another was injured after a huge rock fell on them while they were mining for coal last Friday in Purok Santol, Barangay Uling, in the City of Naga.

A mine inspector was among those on their tour, Nolan said, but she believed he was inspecting the operations underground, not the elevator. The area at the bottom of the shaft was large ...

HAMBLIN VALLEY, Utah (KUTV) — A man was rescued after falling about 50 feet into a mine shaft in Iron County. Lt. Dave Mitchell with Iron County Sheriff's Office said the 49-year-old man was ...

Emergency responders successfully rescued a man who fell into an open mine shaft in northwestern Iron County on Tuesday afternoon. Shortly before 4 p.m., dispatchers received a report indicated ...

At the site, elevators can be tested at speeds of up to 62 feet per second, and freefall tests see a 22,000-pound elevator frame reach 85 feet per second. In total, the mine has 11 shafts with a ...